"Are kounse gane sun rahe hai be" ... my dear friend Durgaprasad, aged 57 yelled when my cellphone bell sung "Ek baar aajjj aaajjja aaaaajja". "are ye koi gana hai kya ? Hamare zamane me dekho kounse gane hote the... OP, Rafi, Mukesh wah wah. Ye tera himesh, sonu inke najdik bhi nahi jate re. Original is original"*
It was a direct assault on my Generation Y and I’d to defend it in my style. "Durga jee ! Look...few days back some great musician died and no one except Aaj-Tak reached him. He died pennyless. And now look at Sonu, he drives in latest imported SUV. Himesh must have built some millions in his bank balance. Who cares for original ? Yeah...ye zamana original ka nahi sahi... Dummies are Dummies. Ye zamana dummies ka hai"
---- Lesson Number 1 from Dummies : Its all about money making now-a-days. ------
When One speaks about acting, the discussion does not go beyond SRK copying, Dileep Kumar, Abhishek following Big B, Payal Rohatgi mimicking Mallika, Kumar Shanu duplicating Kishore Kumar and so on...But underlying thought is SRK manages to make as much as Dileep Kumar’s earnings from all the movies multiplied by 10, Abhishek is the latest heart-throb, Payal Rohatgi is queen of B grade movies and Kumar Shanu ruled singing horizon for atleast a decade.
--- Lesson Number 2 from Dummies : Its all about who rules ones domain.If u , do it. -----*
No one really knew who starred in First Devdas untill Sanjay Leela bhansali came with his version of Devdas. We knew that time about this is 3rd time Devdas is being made.
--- Lesson Number 3 from Dummies : More the publicity, more the gain. -----*
*Anyone remembers who is Jayashree T or Prema Narayan ? They were average looking item gurl from seventies. Ask any bachcha or any boodha who is Rakhi Sawant or Mumait Khan....they even know the way Mika kissed Rakhi in his b’day party.
--- Lesson Number 4 from Dumies : A non entity can become a celebrity. ---*
--------------- Dope on Acting from Me ---------------
If think the above four lessons on acting are useless and need to read something original on writing..here it comes..
Understand the ROLE that you are playing.
Understand how your target audience will like to see your ROLE character.
Think , observe and implement 1 and 2. Thats it.
----------- Dope on Acting from Mouthshut -------------*
- Polishes knives, microphones and barking machines...
Someone strangles from behind...
- Original speaks...dummies attack later...
Moral of the story
At some places, dummies are important too.....